Complex Urls

[Don Pinkster]

Hi,

I want to have an url like /posts/5/edit. I want to go to the PostEdit
controller with 5 as parameter. Is this possible?

Thanks.

[TacoV]

Hey,

Regardless of how easy it would be to do this (I´m not sure about that
from the top of my head), the URL we designed the controllers for
wouldn't be /posts/5/edit but rather /posts/5?edit. Please see some
explanation of this choice in http://sphoof.nl/controller.html. You
can then use SpController::name() to retrieve the parameter.
TL;DR version of the link: a URL points to a resource, not to a
resource+action.

Cheers,

Taco

[Don Pinkster]

Hey,

Yeah I aware of that part, but embracing HTTP the following seems more
logical to me:

Imagine the following url:
/blog/posts/5/edit

Posts belongs to a Blog
5 belongs to a Posts collection
Edit belongs to the My-First-Post

Am I wrong in this mindset? :-)

Thanks for thinking with me.

Don

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[Don Pinkster]

Nevermind my latest reaction; I had the following scheme in my head:
/posts/edit/5

Thanks.

Don

[Berry Langerak]

Hi.

On 04/04/2011 11:45 AM, Don Pinkster wrote:
> Yeah I aware of that part, but embracing HTTP the following seems more
> logical to me:
>
> Imagine the following url:
> /blog/posts/5/edit
>
> Posts belongs to a Blog
> 5 belongs to a Posts collection
> Edit belongs to the My-First-Post
>
> Am I wrong in this mindset? :-)

Sorry to say, but yes, the opposite is true. You see, in HTTP every
segment of a URL should point to a *resource*. In your example, the blog
itself would be a resource, namely, a collection of posts. The post
itself would also be a resource. "edit", however, is a verb, not a noun,
so it isn't a resource. The "edit" _action_ would be yielded by
appending the ?edit query parameter, which will result in calling
getEdit( ) *on the resource*.

It would be rather trivial to implement ($this->context->name( ) would
yield "5" in your examplary URL), but I would advice against it.

Cheers,

Berry.

[Don Pinkster]

I stand corrected. Thanks for thinking with me!

Don